Pencilnoob
@Pencilnoob@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant? 6 hours ago:
friendzone potion, you give it to someone crushing on you or hates you to turn them around. Some might argue showing up with beer / weed is a friendzone potion.
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 2 days ago:
Same, I’ve blocked every single news and politics and it’s bustling
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 5 days ago:
Yeah watch out for this one then. Especially if you get into the mods that turn a 30-50 hour campaign into 500+ hours with 20x more complexity.
- Comment on what is the equivalent of somatic exercises for the mind? 3 weeks ago:
I can second these and add
- yoga
- guided meditation videos
- breathing exercises
- long walks with a heavy pack
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?s 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been hosting Home Assistant now for about nine months very smoothly. So far the only outage has been when I moved the server into a different room last week because it was cluttering up my office. Feels good to have it tucked away in a closet. I’ve got my thermostat, and all my upstairs lights running through it. I keep trying to get these moisture sensors to work for my plants but they just keep losing signal or something and rtl433 just stops seeing those but meanwhile detects every other damn hardware on the whole block. I’ve got 500+ entities that aren’t my three sensors lol. Once I figure that out my Plant Cards dashboard will work again which is super cool.
Other than that, I’ve been hosting Jellyfin for home media and digging it. Much less success with the 'arr suite, it works and stays up but it really struggles to automatically find the weird-ass old niche media I’m looking for. I generally have to handle that part manually, but at least they are good as wishlist of what I’m looking for so I can use that just to keep track.
All in all these two servers (home assistant OS on an old laptop, jellyfin and arr on my former Ubuntu desktop) have been great and just work really without any issues.
Oh last week when I moved them into the closet, they got assigned new IP addresses, so I figured out how to lock them so my clients and bookmarks still work.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 3 weeks ago:
Walking, and add a weighted vest or backpack. Start light, like 5lb/2.5kg for a week or two, then increase by that much a week until you get to 40% of your body weight in a few months.
I find that 30lb/15kg is a great place to stop though, much more feels pretty rough.
Then just walk around. You can listen to music, podcasts, nature, bird sounds.
Do that 45 a day and you’ll be significantly healthier in a few months.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 weeks ago:
It really is the dream
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 weeks ago:
I live in a tiny NE college town where that happens but for breakfast at a dive coffeeshop. It’s loud, packed, the food and coffee are meh, but every single day I can walk in there and see 5-10 locals eating breakfast and shooting the breeze. There’s cliques who always sit together, and social butterflies who pick a different group every morning. A bottomless mug of coffee is $3, so folks will just come and hang out from like 8-11am. It’s great fun.
There’s a brewery next door that’s often busy at night but generally it’s a quiet town so folks are home chilling after dinner.
- Comment on a sight to behold 4 weeks ago:
scrubbing intensely … still not clean…
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
I know it blew my mind too when I first started building this! It’s such a cool project to get to build!
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
Wow thanks! If you like this, on Monday I’m planning to release an update that will let you rewind the viewer all the way back to 1959 and see the first launch of Sputnik. Then let it play forward to today sped up so you can see the growth of satellite counts. Also a new public API to fetch the TLEs from any date. I’m hoping this will let folks do interesting stuff with all that data - maybe AI training or research projects etc.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
Yes, so I’m taking every telescope/radio/radar reading I’m allowed to redistribute and then collecting them into a time series database and fetching the most recent reading for each sat into a text file. That’s the TLE download in the public API. Then I use Rust WASM to propagate those readings into positions that are synced with the viewer time. This allows us to very roughly forecast where they will be for the next couple days.
It’s cool because it’s too much data to transfer over the network, so we only transfer the most recent reading and then calculate positions live in the browser.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
Green is active, orange is debris or dead sats. When a GEO sat runs out of life / power / fuel the operators are supposed to move it out of the main corridor to make room, so often they are in the same ring but higher or lower
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s what my one guy said was enough at the time, and we’ve got some European partners who never brought it up, so maybe it’s good enough with the banner?
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar, what is the law, that we cannot use authentication cookies or google/twitter analytics cookies?
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
Indeed, that’s a joke I’m always saying, that every sat is the size of rhode island
- Comment on one bright second 5 weeks ago:
Yeah for all we know stars are black hole poop
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 5 weeks ago:
Hey I am into this! Check out this site I built for tracking satellites!
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 5 weeks ago:
Yuuup some really low taxes and also a lot of money gets turned into fighter jets and missiles which are of limited use in a structure fire unfortunately. If they asked me I’d shave off a cheeky 5% of our defense budget and turn it into emergency response but they don’t ask
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 1 month ago:
Some are, for sure, but not all.
I know it’s corny, but thank you for your service. You know we still need your help to keep the fire service a welcoming place for new volunteers. Maybe you could sign back up at your new local in a more limited capacity? The more of us there are the better for everyone.
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 1 month ago:
I’ve never met firefighter who carries a taser. We’ve got our hands full with crowbars, axes, ladders, hose, radio, thermal imaging camera, and air monitors. I legit don’t know where I’d even store a taser.
Maybe it’s fire police who are carrying tasers?
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 1 month ago:
Every volunteer fire/EMS organization in the USA is struggling to keep the trucks filled. Most stations in the country are one or two volunteers away from just shutting down entirely.
If you can show up, please volunteer! My station desperately needs not just firefighters - these roles at my station are barely covered by a few overworked volunteers:
- accountants to track gear and vehicle deprecation and keep our books
- grant writers to get us new equipment
- social media people to spread the word
- photographers to tell a story at the fire scene
- cooks to help us with social events and build community
- mechanics to work on the apparatus
- drivers to drive the apparatus (even just back and forth to mechanic shops takes a lot of time)
- detailed people to inventory equipment / replacement schedules
- artists to make cool banners for community events
- people to manage renting out the building to the community to help pay for the station upkeep
- IT folks to help fix station Internet / manage digital records / select vendors / deal with station computers and email accounts
- Web developers to make and manage our website
- leadership to sit on the board and direct the organization
- finance people to help manage investments
Most fire companies would be thrilled to have someone show up and join as a member with the goal of just doing one or more of these roles. We don’t just need firefighters, we need a whole host of other things to keep the organization healthy and stable. We’ve seen what happens when these roles are neglected: we lose memberhip and when we lose membership we lose the bench needed to keep the trucks filled and ready to respond.
- Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 1 month ago:
We leave them there and if it’s damaged call a tow truck to come pick it up. If it’s not damaged we’ll maybe drive it out of the way or see if a patient’s family member can come pick it up. Sometimes the cops will just have it towed anyway since it can’t just stay on the road.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 month ago:
The worst Trek is still better to watch than a heck of a lot of other TV
- Comment on Sportsball Is Self-Care 2 months ago:
narrator all three in denial are abusive to their loved ones
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 2 months ago:
Keep in mind most firefighters in the USA are volunteers who just drive to the station when there’s a fire - not paid professionals.
My station just hired our first full time paramedics, we have a few part time paid firefighter+EMTs, and some volunteer firefighter+EMTs.
While we’re not getting that many fire calls, the few we get are pretty bad. Like, would burn down a neighborhood bad, because everything is now made from fast burning plastics. Sofas, carpets, house paint, siding, roofs, furniture, and clothes are all pretty much petroleum based. And will burn extremely hot and fast when it catches, spreading to all the surrounding exposure buildings.
My buddy works at Underwriters Laboratories and was saying they just did a burn test that showed the typical house today will catch neighboring houses on fire just from the infrared radiation through their windows. Even if the neighboring houses are soaking wet, the insides can still catch fire through the windows.
So we’re in a jam - we hardly ever have real house fires, but they are extremely dangerous and will burn the whole town down if we don’t get there asap.
Not to mention all the car crashes, hazmat spills, EMS lift assists. I’m sure there’s a way we can improve the situation, but I honestly don’t know what it would look like. The US is a huge place that’s very spread out, I don’t think we’re ever going to fully go away from volunteer firefighters, as much as I think it would be a good idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I second this, a monitor is useful in so many more ways! It turns your phone into a whole computer. If you use Android, you can install a terminal and be able to do all kinds of cool stuff on it.
I put a computer monitor with an HDMI to usb C adapter in my kitchen so I can plug in my phone and put on MST3K while cooking.
It’s also useful because you can use it as an external monitor for another computer.
- Comment on Unsolicited. 3 months ago:
this is amazing
- Comment on AI is not bad for the environment in comparison with many other regular activities. 3 months ago:
I would be curious to compare that to Google search. Some experts estimate Google search and the time spent reviewing the results on your device can be 3-10g of Co2. The Google part alone is maybe .2g per search.
www.fastcompany.com/…/internet_impact_visualized
Here they estimated in 2018 that just rendering front page cost 300 tons a minute, so 432,000 tons a day. Just for the front page.
Just to put it in perspective that the Internet itself is not free. It’s expensive to power sending all this data around!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If it’s small you might try printing the files on archival paper with archival ink. Then you can put copies in multiple safe deposit boxes. Also you could bury copies rolled up in plastic water bottles. I think those are unlikely to degrade anytime soon. Or glass bottles with plastic lids.